[WikiEN-l] Copyright question - illegal publications

[zero 0000]

> Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 03:14:36 +0100
> From: geni <geniice at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Copyright question - illegal publications
> To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at wikipedia.org>
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> On 5/10/06, zero 0000 <nought_0000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm hoping someone here can help non a copyright issue.
> >
> > I want to post a translation (probably on Wikiquote) of
> > an article of just over a page that appeared in an illegal
> > newspaper in 1943.  There is no author given and the
> > underground organization which published the newspaper
> > disbanded in 1948.   The article has substantial historical
> > importance.
> >
> > Can I do it legally?  I can't see any explicit clauses in
> > copyright legislation that would exclude illegal publications
> > from copyright protection, but it is the sort of thing that
> > might have come up in court cases.
> >
> > Any pointers would be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks, Zero.
> 
> 
> In which country was it pubished?
> --
> geni

In Palestine, then under a Mandate from the League
of Nations.  So the legal regime at the time has also
been long ago terminated.  The copyright regulations
of the time would have been inherited from the
Ottoman empire, unless the British administration
specifically changed them.

Zero.

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